They were just editors.
Further, it was no secrete that the Supreme Court Justices ARE old.
None of the current Justices is younger than Obama! How can younger HLR Presidents or Editors become Supreme Court Justice then?
To put it another way, none of the current Justices come from other law schools after Obama became HLR president in 1990. Does that mean that the other law schools' XLR presidents (after 1990) are incompetent?